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German Weimar Republic Data, 1919-1933 (ICPSR 42)

Principal Investigator(s):
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary:

This data collection contains electoral and demographic
data at several levels of aggregation (kreis, land/regierungsberzirk,
and wahlkreis) for Germany in the Weimar Republic period of 1919-1933.
Two datasets are available. Part 1, 1919 Data, presents raw and
percentagized election returns at the wahlkreis level for the
1919 election to the Nationalversammlung. Information is provided on
the number and percentage of eligible voters and the total votes cast
for parties such as the German National People's Party, German People's
Party, Christian People's Party, German Democratic Party, Social
Democratic Party, and Independent Social Democratic Party. Part 2,
1920-1933 Data, consists of returns for elections to the Reichstag,
1920-1933, and for the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932
(including runoff elections in each year), returns for two national
referenda, held in 1926 and 1929, and data pertaining to urban
population, religion, and occupations, taken from the German Census
of 1925. This second dataset contains data at several levels of
aggregation and is a merged file. Crosstemporal discrepancies, such
as changes in the names of the geographical units and the
disappearance of units, have been adjusted for whenever possible.
Variables in this file provide information for the total number
and percentage of eligible voters and votes cast for parties,
including the German Nationalist People's Party, German People's
Party, German Center Party, German Democratic Party, German
Social Democratic Party, German Communist Party, Bavarian People's
Party, Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party (Hitler's movement),
German Middle Class Party, German Business and Labor Party,
Conservative People's Party, and other parties. Data are also
provided for the total number and percentage of votes cast in
the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932 for candidates
Jarres, Held, Ludendorff, Braun, Marx, Hellpach, Thalman, Hitler,
Duesterburg, Von Hindenburg, Winter, and others. Additional
variables provide information on occupations in the country,
including the number of wage earners employed in agriculture,
industry and manufacturing, trade and transportation, civil
service, army and navy, clergy, public health, welfare, domestic
and personal services, and unknown occupations. Other census data
cover the total number of wage earners in the labor force and the
number of female wage earners employed in all occupations. Also
provided is the percentage of the total population living in
towns with 5,000 inhabitants or more, and the number and
percentage of the population who were Protestants, Catholics,
and Jews.

This data collection contains electoral and demographic
data at several levels of aggregation (kreis, land/regierungsberzirk,
and wahlkreis) for Germany in the Weimar Republic period of 1919-1933.
Two datasets are available. Part 1, 1919 Data, presents raw and
percentagized election returns at the wahlkreis level for the
1919 election to the Nationalversammlung. Information is provided on
the number and percentage of eligible voters and the total votes cast
for parties such as the German National People's Party, German People's
Party, Christian People's Party, German Democratic Party, Social
Democratic Party, and Independent Social Democratic Party. Part 2,
1920-1933 Data, consists of returns for elections to the Reichstag,
1920-1933, and for the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932
(including runoff elections in each year), returns for two national
referenda, held in 1926 and 1929, and data pertaining to urban
population, religion, and occupations, taken from the German Census
of 1925. This second dataset contains data at several levels of
aggregation and is a merged file. Crosstemporal discrepancies, such
as changes in the names of the geographical units and the
disappearance of units, have been adjusted for whenever possible.
Variables in this file provide information for the total number
and percentage of eligible voters and votes cast for parties,
including the German Nationalist People's Party, German People's
Party, German Center Party, German Democratic Party, German
Social Democratic Party, German Communist Party, Bavarian People's
Party, Nationalist-Socialist German Workers' Party (Hitler's movement),
German Middle Class Party, German Business and Labor Party,
Conservative People's Party, and other parties. Data are also
provided for the total number and percentage of votes cast in
the Reichsprasident elections of 1925 and 1932 for candidates
Jarres, Held, Ludendorff, Braun, Marx, Hellpach, Thalman, Hitler,
Duesterburg, Von Hindenburg, Winter, and others. Additional
variables provide information on occupations in the country,
including the number of wage earners employed in agriculture,
industry and manufacturing, trade and transportation, civil
service, army and navy, clergy, public health, welfare, domestic
and personal services, and unknown occupations. Other census data
cover the total number of wage earners in the labor force and the
number of female wage earners employed in all occupations. Also
provided is the percentage of the total population living in
towns with 5,000 inhabitants or more, and the number and
percentage of the population who were Protestants, Catholics,
and Jews.

Access Notes

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Study Description

Citation

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. GERMAN WEIMAR REPUBLIC DATA, 1919-1933. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1999. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00042.v1

The data maps are provided as ASCII text files, and
the codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF)
file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated
and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is
provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-20

Version History:

2005-12-22 File CB0042.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.